What’s going on this week on Planet French:

It’s another huge week on Planet French! The tremendously popular contest for French students “Écris une lettre au père Noel”! starts Today!

We’re also featuring the biggest toy store in the world and we’re starting our interviews with Santa’s elves.

By Wednesday we’ll be adding a new lesson about the biggest telescope in the history of the world, the James Webb telescope. We gave you a short teaser last week during a general news episode, and we’ve been asked for more. We interviewed the mission director for Canada’s Space Agency (in French)

and he explains Canada’s involvement. This lesson will be posted in the science course, “LA TERRE ET L’ESPACE”, on Planet French by Wednesday.

By the end of this week we are also adding an intermediate level reader and audio drama on volcanoes. It features both a narrative story and facts of interest about volcanoes, in addition to the drama audio component performed by actors.

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The Annual contest for French students: “ÉCRIS UNE LETTRE AU PÈRE NOËL” starts TODAY!

Today is the start of the tremendously popular contest for French students, “ÉCRIS UNE LETTRE AU PÈRE NOËL”!

Today’s video offers some news, then discusses the contest. For full contest rules, click below.

Le concours annuel est commencé! Planet French invite tous les élèves de français à écrire leurs lettres au père Noël.

Voici les instructions, clique ici.

The contest, “Écris une lettre au père Noël” is a fantastic activity to engage your students and get them producing texts and videos in French.

Plus you could win books for your school and get your letters read on Planet French! 

Note for advanced students:

Option 1: You can write a text or make a video describing the best Christmas, or other celebration you ever had.  This pushes students to use past tenses.

Option 2: You can write a text or make a video describing a Christmas or other celebration you look forward to having when you are grown up. This pushes students to use future tenses.

252-Inondations Historiques En Colombie-Britannique: Les Canadiens Mettent Leurs De Travail

In this episode we cover the historic floods in BC, how BC has been rocked by successive hardships: Covid, forest fires and historic flooding. Canadians are nothing if not resilient. This short film takes you through an accelerated timeline of Canadian resilience.

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251-Championnes canadiennes: Olivia Surf Nouvelle-Écosse/Vivian Diplôme Universitaire À 16 Ans/Judy Astronaute Du Manitoba/Maryam de L’Alberta Championne en Sciences

In this episode Canadian ladies are taking center stage:

• Olivia Chute from Nova Scotia rocks it with a gold in surfing at the Pan Am games
• Vivian Xie is the youngest student to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, at just 16 years old!
• Judy Anderson, a retired teacher from Manitoba is shooting for space: She pays 200,000 to take a flight in space
• Maryam Tsegaye, a grade 12 student from Alberta gets first prize in a contest and takes home $500,000 for a science video she made.

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C’est le Vendredi fou! Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire? What’s Black Friday? We visit a toy store, meet the owner and discover amazing toys!

• On rencontre Michael. C’est le propriétaire du magasin de jouets “Enfantino”. On découvre des jouets cool et on apprend ce qu’est le “Vendredi fou!”.

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LA FERME OUIMET ET LE LABYRINTHE

In this video in levelled French, Planet French visits La Ferme Ouimet. This farm is 100 years old and features games and a corn labyrinth. Things get complicated when we get lost in the labyrinth!

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Clothes shopping? Try this video on for size: Deux jeunes magasinent

We follow two teens out shopping in a trendy clothing store. With the help of the French clerk, they change their look. Click here to watch if you’re already logged in to Planet French.